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Can we switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030? Folks @ Stanford via FAST COMPANY crunch the numbers

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Allen Bingham in Meanderings

Can we switch to 100% renewable energy by 2030? Folks @ Stanford via FAST COMPANY crunch the numbers.

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